Landmark Education
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Landmark Education
Landmark Education
Landmark Education also known as Landmark Education Corporation LEC from May 1991 to February 2003 is a limited liability company with over 20 years experience in training and development. The company provides educational programs in more than twenty countries at one hundred and fifteen locations world-wide.
The Landmark Education company, a private employee owned company which originated from the sale of Werner Erhards intellectual property "the est training program" in 1991. With its head office in San Francisco, Landmark Education has since then revised "The Forum" presentation it purchased rights to from Werner Erhards and Associates to "The Landmark Forum" which is a revised copy of the presentation. Landmark Education has also come up with additional courses offering consulting and training to organizations through its subsidiary company "the Vanto Group".
The Landmark Forum curriculum is conducted over a four-day period typically scheduled on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9:00am to 10:00pm and a three-hour Tuesday evening. The program fee for individuals in the United States is $500.00 per person with a generally number of 150 people taking take in each course.
Guidelines or rules are established at the being of the program strongly encouraging participants to not just be observers but to be receptive or "coachable" and not miss any part of the program. The course is set up as a discussion where the course leader presents the group with various ideas and the group responds by sharing their views on how the ideas presented reflect in their lives.
Some of the ideas presented, asseverated and discussed in the program cover questions involving the difference between an actuality and interpretation of situations or circumstances involving ones life, how the need to look good governs human behaviour, how one can change or transform by merely asserting a new way of being rather than trying to change themselves among others.
Participants